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I think the general attitude was not that these people are conspiracy theorists and making these things up but that there response would be something like "Why does it matter, how does it affect me?" and the answer would have been some theoretical bad thing that the average person can't imagine happening to themselves. Now its happening which makes it real for people.

Gitlab is meant to be an alternative to entire suites of products from competitors so it makes sense. At work we make use of most of the features of gitlab so its a really great thing they include them all.

Honestly I'm not sure how you could even be confused by it as an individual developer either. I used it for my individual projects before getting a real development job and didn't have any issues. It different to github but not worse or less correct. Its just github has become the standard on what the default layout and names should be.

This is rubbish. Github is massively more useful than dumping the source on your own webserver even if you do not want PRs. It would be a fairly simple change to simply add a button and remove the PR tab.

Its not simply better. Going HTML only means killing features and conveniences that users want for a benefit they mostly won't see. Its perfectly possible to make web apps run very fast.

With DNS over HTTPS and encrypted SNI, soon the only information you will get is "They accessed a website on amazon/cloudflair"

I'd flip that and say you should only support http if your website absolutely requires it. Unless you absolutely can not avoid supporting old devices you should just redirect http to https.

The privacy of all users is more important than supporting the outdated browser on an ereader.

I had always been using 2-3 year old android phones for the last 7 years and I was unable to comprehend how anyone uses the web on mobile because everything was so incredibly slow in the browser while native apps were fine. Then I got the latest iphone and my mind was blown at how I could scroll a website at 60fps. I guess if you have the fastest phone on the market, everything seems fine.

Rails is an excellent choice for the backend but on the frontend its much less productive than react. Most rails apps these days would use rails as an api backend and react on the frontend.

Almost every JS app I have seen uses a tags though. Even if they are just links to # pages. With most router libraries you can even use real paths and it works all on the front end. Sounds like you found one anecdotal case that didn't know this.

>The issue is that a lot of developers will want to use React for everything else on the page, because they think it's "icky" to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website.

It is though. I work on an app thats 80% react and 20% rails SSR and when working on anything, seeing that an area that needs change is written with SSR makes the job 10x harder as you have to come up with alternative methods to get it working or just rewrite it in react. When everything is react everything is quite easy and you can pass around data and update things without a refresh easily.

Some interesting thoughts in here. I guess the main thing is that there is basically infinite demand for more things in software. You can take almost any feature from any product and come up with new things you would like it to do that would take entire teams of developers to work on.

Software will never get quicker to develop because we will always request the absolute maximum amount of features that the market can stand to afford.

Basically every area has exploded with more features and is still way way behind what people would ideally want. Just look at the difference between Discord and IRC.

Its no wonder there is a trend now of just outright rejecting information presented when our "trusted" sources of information are very susceptible to malice and error without any real tools to combat it.

My current view is that academic research should not be used as proof of anything and only as the starting point for your own research. And by your own research I mean your own actual tests. The papers can point you in the right direction but their findings should not be taken as fact.

I have already covered that case though. Google provides a tool to dump your data locally which they can never touch. Put all your photos on google first and then do a monthly backup to your local computer. Its verging on impossible that google will ban you and your hdd fail at the same time.

These tech companies make it harder and harder to avoid their lock in platforms. They crush and buy all the competitors and end up with userbases so big that if you do not participate you will be missing out.

I never wish to sign up for facebook but they have crippled the alternative buy and sell sites, obsoleted most forums and are now invading the VR space with their spyware.

At some point we need to stop blaming the user and look at what we can do to curb the size and power of these companies.

I use an ergodox at home and the macbook keyboard at work. I don't really have any issues these days. What does stuff me up for a while is when I remap a key on the ergodox it takes a while to stop hitting the wrong key but I guess the macbook keyboard is so different that its basically a totally different thing to my brain like how typing on a phone is.

Honestly not a whole lot. I have the much more expensive ergodox ez and the main features would be mechanical switches, full customization of the keyboard layout and the fact that you can spread them further out. On the ergodox you can have your arms pointing forwards rather than angled inwards. If none of that sounds interesting than there is no reason to get anything more.

Its a backup of whats on your google account. You set your phone to upload to google and once a month or so you download the backup.

Basically. I get the "its their service, and you agreed to the terms" but these tech corps are so big and powerful its on a scale unimaginable when these laws and ideas were originally created and its probably time to rethink how we let corporations run when they basically control the world.

The current state of things is that dpi scaling at non fractional rates works perfectly when all screens are at the same scale. Everything else works if you use Wayland and your applications support wayland as well.

So basically what happens is all native apps work fine and everything electron doesn't scale properly.

What do you actaully want to use a computer for when on holidays? That probably determines the answer more than anything else.

Without any information, have you considered an ipad and maybe a bluetooth keyboard? You can pick up older but still supported ipads pretty cheaply second hand.

This is too much for almost all users. IMO the best method is to simply store them on google and keep a single local copy. Its almost impossible that google will lose your data since they keep multiple backups and the local copy will save you if they ever kick you off the service.

> It's hard to find torrents for older, more obscure things.

Maybe this falls in to the hard category but once you make it in to the private music tracker, you have everything trivially accessible. I still have an account on the tracker but I just don't bother using it since spotify is so cheap and useful. It just makes no sense that they would implement DRM since it does basically nothing since no one was prevented from piracy through DRM.

Exactly the same as with the hosted version. All you would gain is unlimited CI minutes but you can configure the hosted one to use your own CI runner anyway.

There is a feature that lets non users report issues via email which might be usable. It would prevent them participating in more advanced issue tracking and seeing other users issues though.

They essentially said they are not at the top of the post because its not profitable enough to keep the bronze tier. I appreciate the honesty tbh

Was also doing this for ages but eventually caved since spotify is so so much easier. The DRM on spotify is really stupid since every single track on spotify is trivial to find a torrent for yet no one bothers torrenting since spotify is cheap and very convenient.

Bitcoin is actually not limited by compute power at all. Its an artificial cap on transaction rate to prevent the blockchain from expanding too large and preventing normal users from hosting the whole thing.

You can see the blockchain size was growing exponentially but then switches to linear as we hit the transaction cap and it now sits at about 350GB

Its worth noting that running certbot / LE twice a day doesn't actually hit the LE server twice a day. It just checks the certificate dates locally and if they have been renewed in the last month it does nothing.

I guess you still have a peak time of 00:00 UTC every day though unless people are using servers set to their local time.

That just means multithreaded will become more and more important. Languages like rust may gain some usage as we start to require safe multithreading.

Why assume this has to be a traditional cable. I'm imagining something in the middle of the car park that latches on to the bottom of the car. Maybe it could be 10 charging cables in a base that rises up which gives you the amp rating without massive copper strands.